"The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know."
- Nassim Taleb
"Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win."
- Nassim Taleb
"The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing."
- Nassim Taleb
"The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you."
- Nassim Taleb
"Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing."
- Nassim Taleb
"Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur."
- Nassim Taleb
"Only the autodidacts are free."
- Nassim Taleb
"Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity."
- Nassim Taleb
"Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there."
- Nassim Taleb
"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."